{"product_id":"a-vindication-of-the-rights-of-woman-isbn-9781788737326","title":"A Vindication of the Rights of Woman","description":"\"It would be an endless task to trace the variety of meannesses, cares, and sorrows, into which women are plunged by the prevailing opinion that they were created rather to feel than reason, and that all the power they obtain, must be obtained by their charms and weakness.\" —Mary Wollstonecraft \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eComposed in 1790, Mary Wollstonecraft's seminal feminist tract \u003ci\u003eA Vindication of the Rights of Woman\u003c\/i\u003e broke new ground in its demand for women's education. \u003ci\u003eA Vindication\u003c\/i\u003e remains one of history's most important and elegant manifestos against sexual oppression. In her introduction, renowned socialist feminist Sheila Rowbotham casts Wollstonecraft's life and work in a radical new light.\"A fascinating, and entertaining, read.\"—\u003ci\u003eDiva\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eMary Wollstonecraft\u003c\/b\u003e (1759–1797) first achieved fame for her \u003ci\u003eA Vindication of the Rights of Woman\u003c\/i\u003e (1792), in which she extended the radical idea of the \"rights of man\" to women and laid the groundwork for modern feminism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSheila Rowbotham\u003c\/b\u003e is Honorary Research Fellow in Sociology in the School of Social Sciences within the Faculty of Humanities at Manchester University and Visiting Fellow in the School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies at the University of Bristol. She is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. Her many books include the James Tait Black–shortlisted \u003ci\u003eEdward Carpenter: A Life of Liberty and Love\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eA Century of Women: The History of Women in Britain and the United States in the Twentieth Century\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePromise Of A Dream: Remembering the Sixties\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eDreamers of a New Day: Women Who Invented the Twentieth Century\u003c\/i\u003e. She has written for, among other newspapers, the \u003ci\u003eGuardian, The Times, The Independent, New Statesman\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e. She lives in Manchester.","brand":"Verso","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46303716507877,"sku":"NP9781788737326","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781788737326.jpg?v=1767720900","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/a-vindication-of-the-rights-of-woman-isbn-9781788737326","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}